Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.

The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.